Disaster Zone Droughts
By Cari Meister
Published by Pogo Books 2015
24 pages
Grades 2-5
A drought is where an area gets little water for too long. Australia's worst drought was from 1997 to 2009. Rivers and lakes dry up. The grounds get hard and cracks. This can cause fires and flooding. When it finally does rain because the ground is so hard it can not absorb the water causing flooding. Droughts are hard to predict. They can happen all over the world. We must take care of our water supply and help conserve water in case something like this was to happen in our area.
The pictures in this book are very interesting. It shows us real examples of things that is addresses in the book. This book would be great to teach in History or Science. You could ask questions on certain areas and when they had a drought. At the back of the book it has an experiment that you can do with your class to show how a drought can effect the soil in the ground.
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